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ETERNAL LOVE
Chapter 3
Sailor Galaxy

" Well? Aren't you going to tell us?"

Raye picked up her glass of iced tea and gulped it down. They were all at the 
temple for the meeting to discuss the events that had taken place the day 
before.

" First of all, I have question."

Serena shifted on the cushion she was sitting on and remembered Queen 
Serenity's advice. She continued when Lita told her to.

" Do you trust me?"

The Scouts looked at each other. Amy was the first to voice the question in 
all their minds.

" What kind if a question is that?"

Serena gazed back at her.

" What do you think? Yesterday, you all just ignored me-"

Mina cut in.

" We didn't ignore you. We noticed you. Trouble is, it was too late. You 
should have called earlier. Even with you all the way across town, you had 
plenty of time to make it."

Lita nodded.

" Yeah. What were we supposed to think when you didn't show? The youma nearly 
killed us. As it is, we were all really injured."

Serena looked at the floor. She could understand their point but what she 
couldn't understand was their aggressiveness. It was as if something had 
gotton inside them. They weren't acting as themselves. 

" Are you going to believe me if I tell you what happened?"

Mina shrugged and looked the floor. 

" I take it to mean that you don't know?"

Lita nodded.

" There were two youmas. They looked the same-"

Mina interrupted.

" Two? We only saw one. See, you're already lying."

Serena frowned.

" There were two. I'm telling you-"

This time Amy broke in.

" Mina. There were two youmas. We only fought one. But remember the vision in 
the fire? There were two youmas there who looked the same."

Serena smiled at Amy.

" Yes. You only fought one because the other had already been Moon dusted. By 
me."

Lita shook her head.

" Come of it. All us four put together couldn't kill one youma and you're 
saying that you dusted one by yourself? I find that hard to believe."

Raye agreed.

" Yes. And another thing. Say if you did fight the other youma-"

She held up a hand as Serena started to say something.

" I'm not saying that you did. I'm just speaking metaphorically. If you did 
fight it, you looked fine when you got to the park. You should have been 
injured. A scratch or something."

Serena looked at the others. They nodded.

" You didn't notice?"

Mina frowned.

" Noticed? Noticed what? That you weren't there to help us? Oh we noticed that 
alright-"

Serena scowled at her.

" No! For God's sake forget that okay?"

Amy spoke up.

" We can't forget that Serena. Ever. You got there late. And you still haven't 
told us what you were doing before you transformed that caused you to be late."

Serena grew frustrated. This wasn't working. At all.

" Listen! Try to keep your mouths shut for a while. Think you can do that? 
You're not giving me a chance to say anything."

The others stared at her.

" You called me on the communicator. I transformed. I was running to get to 
the park as fast as possible. Then, the other youma stopped me. I dusted him 
after he hit me with a crystal. After that, I came to the park."

Amy looked at Serena questioningly.

" You got hurt?"

Serena pointed towards her side where the crystal had hit her. Raye looked 
there. She stepped closer and lifted Serena's shirt to get a better look. All 
the girls craned their necks to see. And there it was. A long thin scar which 
would vanish in a few days, but for the time being was very apparent.

Amy frowned at it and pointed out that it looked too old to be an injury from 
yesterday. It was well on the way to healing and even though the Sailor Scouts 
could heal very fast, this was way to much.

Lita cocked an eyebrow at Serena.

" Well?"

Serena debated whether to tell them about what she had done. Healed herself 
with the crystal. She had been thinking about the Scouts and the fact that 
their words had caused her more pain inside than the wound had. And the next 
thing she had noticed was that the wound was healed and perhaps that's why it 
hadn't been causing her anymore pain. She had noticed that she held the 
crystal in her hands, by her side. She must have used the crystal to heal 
herself. 

Serena hadn't known that was possible. And she didn't know whether she ought 
to tell the Scouts about it. After all, she hadn't told them about her new 
power and the mysterious golden crystal she had seen. She just had a feeling 
that it was all meant to be private, something that only she knew. The others 
couldn't know about it. At all. 

" It- it must have been our healing powers. And since I'm the leader, I guess 
I heal faster."

Mina twisted her lips.

" That isn't fair. We fight as much as you. Maybe more with the way things 
have been going lately. If anything, it should be us four who get faster 
healing powers. Not you."

Serena grew angry. She fought. She fought harder than any of them knew. They 
had no idea how much the Sceptre drained her. She always felt like lying down 
and going to sleep after using it. That was one of the reasons she always got 
up late in the mornings. Not that she was always early before being a Sailor 
Scout but she was trying to be more responsible and couldn't because she was 
hardly getting any sleep.

And she didn't know how, but ever since she had used her new attack, there was 
this new feeling inside her. This feeling of coolness, of arrogance and of 
confidence. She felt different. As if she was older and more mature than her 
years. As if she could handle anything that came her way. 

Mina continued when she saw that Serena wasn't going to say anything.

" We  know that since you have the Sceptre, you're the only one who can 
properly dust a youma. But don't think that gives you any special privileges. 
It doesn't mean that you wait until we weaken the youma and then you saunter 
in on the scene and dust it. We're not going to have that are we girls?"

The others made exclamations of acceptance. Serena frowned at them all. They 
didn't believe her. Well, maybe they did. But they still thought that it was 
her fault that she had been late. What was with them anyway? Why couldn't they 
listen to her? Properly.  

" Well, what do you want me to do? I haven't got any of the powers like all of 
you. All I can use is my crystal and Sceptre. And while you all weaken the 
youma, what can I do? Nothing. That's what."

Lita disagreed.

" How did you kill that youma? By fighting. You can do the same when you're
with us. Distract it. Or whatever you did with the other youma. You just 
proved that you can do something. Why don't you do that then?"

Serena shook her head.

" I really don't understand you. I tried my best to kill the youma fast so 
that I could help you. And I did just that. "

Raye broke in.

" You should have tried harder."

Serena stood up and she felt tears burn her eyes but she refused to cry. To 
cry would mean that she was a baby. Well, she wasn't. What the Scouts had done 
had forced her to grow up. She would show them.
 
" And you should all get some sort of sense into your brains. Aren't you aware 
of the fact that when you fight, you get hurt? So what if you got a few 
scratches? I was hurt worse. You need to grow up. All of you. Can't you fight 
a youma by yourselves?  Do you always need me to back you up? Fine, so you 
can't kill a youma alone. But you know that I was fighting a youma elsewhere. 
If I had ignored it and came to help you, I would have had to wait while you 
weakened the youma to kill it. By then, the other youma would have been 
creating damage in the city. And all this would have happened in the same 
amount of time that we used yesterday. Except that this way, only one youma 
would have been dusted and who knows how many people injured while by what 
happened yesterday, no bystander was hurt and both youmas were dusted."

Serena paused to let it all sink in. 

" And another thing. You should get yourself in order. All you've been doing 
this meeting is nagging at me. Well, ask yourselves this. Why haven't you- any 
of you- bothered to ask questions about who the new enemy is and what it 
wants? Continue at this rate and I'll start thinking that maybe you don't want 
to say anything bad about the enemy. And ask yourselves why you don't want 
that."

Everybody stayed silent but Serena could still sense the hostility behind 
their faces. She shook her head again and walked out of the temple. Even Luna 
and Artemis didn't say anything. They were all abandoning her. All of them. 
Her so-called-friends. The ones who had taken an oath of loyalty.

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     Darien froze as a wave of pain assailed his senses. It wasn't his pain. 
He didn't even hurt. But Sailor Moon was in trouble. He had more control over 
his transformation now and could do it whenever he wanted. But he always 
automatically knew when Sailor Moon was in trouble. It was a link. He could 
just sense that she was hurt and at the moment  was very tired. 
                       
He put his cup back down on the counter after taking just one sip and without 
saying anything to Andrew, raced out of the arcade towards where he knew 
Sailor Moon would be. He glimpsed his friend's startled face through the 
window but didn't stop. He'd apologise to Andrew later.

Taking a short cut through an alley way, he took out his rose and transformed 
as he ran. In a few seconds, he was on the branches of a tree under which 
Sailor Moon struggled to get up. He vaguely wondered where the other Sailor 
Scouts where but every thought escaped out of his mind as he took in the 
youma's appearance. 

It was large. It was billowy. And it looked like a quilt. From what Tuxedo 
Mask could see, there were no eyes, no nose, nothing that every youma had. 
Except a large flap which might have been the mouth. He could see inside and 
there was nothing there but emptiness. He could swear that it was made out of 
cotton. He wondered what it's attack was and found out when it opened the flap 
and launched a cotton type ball at Sailor Moon. She tried to duck out of the 
ay but it hit her legs and enveloped them in clothe. He threw a rose towards 
her legs and the clothe tore. 

The youma screeched the same sound as when clothe tears. Tuxedo Mask leaped 
down from  the branch on which he had been standing. He searched his mind to 
produce a witty remark.

" Clothes can covey many messages. But creatures like you take the beauty of 
it away. I, Tuxedo Mask, will not allow you to commit this offence."

He cart wheeled over the youma and threw a bouquet of roses at it. All of them 
pierced the youma and it screamed. As it was getting ready to bellow out and 
open it's flap again, a man appeared. he wore a black cloak and black gloves. 
He had long black hair which covered one half of his long, narrow face. His 
eyes were utterly black and merciless. His features were thin and cruel.   

Tuxedo Mask readied himself for an attack, but the man just turned to the 
youma and rapped out an order. The youma cowered before him and disappeared, 
leaving behind trails of thread, waving in the slight wind. The man turned 
towards Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask tensed. 

" No worry, Prince. Today, the Princess shall stay with you. But next time..."

He trailed of and let loose a blood curdling laugh. Tuxedo Mask frowned behind 
his mask. The man was familiar. He had heard that laugh before. But where? 

" Who are you?"

" You will doubtless not remember me. When Queen Serenity did a job, she 
really did it well didn't she?"

The man was amused.

" My name is Seer. I am Seer. You will do well to remember that, Prince 
Endymion. And also, my King Morhanalia wishes to be made known to you. I shall 
be back. And you shall be sorry."

The man disappeared with one more look at Sailor Moon's prone figure on the 
ground. Tuxedo Mask stood staring after him for a minute. Queen Serenity. The 
man knew her? That would mean that him and King Morhanalia were from the 
Silver Millennium. Tuxedo Mask had a bad feeling about this. Things were going to get much worse. 

He walked over to Sailor Moon and looked at her. She was unconscious and as 
there was no sign of the Scouts, he would have to take care of her himself. 
Conceding that he was the only one who could help her, he took her into his 
arms, and headed towards home.


Will Tuxedo Mask remember Seer? What did Morhanalia have to do in the Silver 
Millennium? And where were the Scouts?

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